In just three or five days, a piece of news spread all over Chang'an City-

Xue Zhao was defeated in Jinling City and was seriously injured!

It is rumored that Xue Zhao rushed forward lightly against the enemy, pursued Jin An and fell into the plan, was attacked from both sides, lost his armor all the way, and retreated in defeat.

Many people were incredulous at first, but after a few days, the incident had become a recognized fact and spread out of the Chang'an realm.

In fact, this is very strange, Xue Zhao's battle report about this scene has not yet arrived, but it is already known to everyone below, and it is only in a few short days.

In the shadows, it seems that there are countless double pushers pushing all this, pushing an empire to a place you don't know.

People are a little panicked, the shadow of the northern frontier has long been shrouded in their hearts, if something happens in the southern country again, it is really unimaginable.

And a great storm is also raging above the court.

Almost all the ministers believed that it was urgent to recall Xue Zhao and replace Shi Junyi.

The civilian-official group headed by Long He and Xu Jingyi continued to write and was filled with righteous indignation in the court.

Even Lin Diao, who was far away in the north, wrote to Li Zenan, and from a military point of view, he tactfully reminded Li Zenan that Xue Zhao is not a suitable candidate for commander.

Xue Zhao didn't know what was happening, and neither did the soldiers under him. Jin An is not their opponent, the destruction of Nanwu is close at hand, things are progressing step by step, under this good situation, changing the commander is simply a joke.

Regarding the rumors outside, Li Zenan was a little surprised, and after being surprised, he smiled, this was indeed just a joke, he didn't believe that Xue Zhao would be defeated so easily, but he also left room for not strictly refuting Long and that group of people, for Lin Diao's twists and turns, he should have never seen it at all.

In the last few days, he smiled and said, "Wait for Xue Zhao's battle report to reach my hands", and passed by, not giving the courtiers a chance to talk at all.

This series of actions completely angered Long and the others, their battle was even more intense, at this moment of life and death, they would not compromise with Li Zenan, Xue Zhao was not their person, nor was he the person they were optimistic about, so in the end, it must be Li Zenan.

As the days passed, the uneasiness outside intensified, and Li Zenan realized the seriousness of the problem and began to send people to suppress those rumors, and at such a moment, many unnecessary words would destroy his great empire.

But the effect is not great, the secret hand is competing with his Li Zenan's hand, and the suppression cannot be carried out to a greater extent.

Li Zenan didn't think too much about it, for him, after succeeding to the throne for so long, the entire Northern Tang Dynasty was firmly under his control, and the Southern Wu Secret Mansion, which was once very fearful, has also been destroyed, especially after the army invaded Jinling and the Jinguan Second Mansion was almost destroyed.

So that force will not be the Nanwu Secret Mansion, absolutely not, it may just be a rumor.

Eight days later, the people's unrest was finally effectively alleviated and suppressed, and the courtiers were still chattering, but Li Zenan was as steady as Mount Tai.

And at this time, Xue Zhao's battle report finally arrived.

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When he got the battle report, Li Zenan was in the Dust Washing Palace.

On the side of his body, there is a mirror dressing table, but there is no beauty in the mirror anymore.

On the other side, there is a screen of carved phoenixes.

In the middle of the palace, the beauty on the portrait is still the same, with wide sleeves hanging down, eyes also hanging down, and the beautiful face is full of sadness.

How many years ago she disappeared, how many days and nights she looked down and how many years later she became His Majesty's royal brother, but she did not speak.

Li Xunan read the battle report that Xue Zhao gave him and read it several times.

He frowned, his expression not looking the same as usual.

This is a short battle report, and it stands to reason that there is nothing boring, there is no need for him to dwell on it, but he still repeats the words inside, guessing the truth of things in the distance.

Before the battle report arrived, Chang'an spread the news that Xue Zhao was defeated and seriously injured, and the courtiers were arguing, he ignored it, and he didn't believe it, he was waiting for the battle report that Xue Zhao gave him, and he believed that he would read everything from it.

However, Xue Zhao's battle report seemed a bit strange to him.

Xue Zhao is a righteous gentleman, so he will not falsely report the results of the battle, but this time he was a little vague.

He didn't say that he had won, or that he had lost, but that after some fighting, he had retreated.

Didn't lose, so why did you retreat, could it be that you suddenly felt hungry, so you stopped fighting and went back to bury the pot and cook?

This is really a cold joke, Li Zenan doesn't have that kind of humorous cell to guess like this.

In fact, this battle report Xue Zhao just told the truth, because he didn't know whether that battle was won or lost, and he didn't think of what would happen after that battle.

But now the situation is different.

The next day, as usual, some ministers indignantly said that Xue Zhao did not need to use the cripple and waste rice bucket anymore, and if it continued like this, sooner or later the soldiers and horses would be thrown away.

Long and Xu Jingyi still didn't come out on their own, and the officials below bombarded indiscriminately, which seemed to have nothing to do with them on the surface.

It's just that these two old foxes feel that something is wrong.

Because Li Zenan did not say "I know" lightly as before, and then "postpone it".

Instead, he didn't speak, just listened calmly, didn't say a word, didn't smile.

There was silence on the dragon chair, and that silence was very oppressive.

Long Ji and Xu Jingyi are not ignorant people, they know that things have changed, as for what kind of change, it is estimated that only Li Zenan himself knows.

Long Jihe glanced back, and in some surprised eyes, the officials stopped attacking Xue Zhao, and they looked at the two of them and understood the meaning of that look.

The hall fell into a dead silence, and no one spoke.

Many looked at each other, terrified by the dead silence.

Finally, after a long time, a voice broke the dead silence.

"Anything else?" Li Zenan spoke slowly, his expression still calm, terrifyingly calm.

Some people looked at Long and Xu Jingyi.

They don't speak.

So, no one spoke.

"Then let's retreat." Li Zenan spoke again.

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